The Lewis and Clark Expedition Coloring Book (Dover History Coloring Book)
by Peter F. Copeland Author
(From Amazon): On May 14, 1804, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark — accompanied by an intrepid band of skilled hunters and gunsmiths — set off up the Missouri River to explore a vast wilderness of 825,000 square miles purchased from the French. In this historic coloring book, 45 accurate, precisely rendered illustrations recapture highpoints of expedition.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780486245577
- Print Status
- In Print
- Pictures
- 45
- Pages
- 48
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 8th
- Geographical Setting
- American West
- Historical Setting
- 1803 - 1806
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Copyright
- 1984
Pictures
- 1 Signing the Louisiana Purchase Agreement in Paris, April 30, 1803
- 2 Lewis and Clark set sail
- 3 Members of the Expedition
- 4 At the French riverside village of St. Charles
- 5 Often the explorers had to drag the boats through strong currents
- 6 Beavers on the banks of the Missouri River
- 7 The burial of Sgt. Floyd
- 8 First council with the Great Plains Indians
- 9 Captain Clark carried to an Indian village
- 10 Leader of the Dog Band of Hidatsa warriors
- 11 Assiniboine Indians
- 12 Elk along the Missouri River
- 13 A hunting party of Sioux warriors
- 14 Indian warfare
- 15 Returning to Fort Mandan from a buffalo hunt
- 16 The explorers passed the hard winter at Fort Mandan
- 17 Indian medicine sign for buffalo
- 18 Explorers join the Indians in a buffalo hunt
- 19 The Indians meet a black man
- 20 Mounted Blackfoot warrior
- 21 Buffalo Dance of the Mandan Indians
- 22 Sacajawea, or "Bird Woman"
- 23 Three French trappers accompany the expedition to the Yellowstone River
- 24 Sergeant Ordway
- 25 Encounters with dangerous animals
- 26 Meriweather Lewis' first view of the Rocky Mountains
- 27 Lewis saved the life of Richard Windsor
- 28 A herd of bighorn sheep
- 29 The explorers set out overland to pass the Great Falls of the Missouri
- 30 Members of a Piegan Indian war party
- 31 Interior of a Mandan Indian hut
- 32 The explorers camped opposite the forks of the Missouri
- 33 Captain Clark taking a position sight with his brass-bound compass
- 34 Captain William Clark meet the Shoshoni Chief Cameahwait
- 35 In the Bitteroot Mountain Range
- 36 Running the Short Narrows of the Columbia River
- 37 A village of the Colville Indians near Kettle Falls on the Columbia River
- 38 Sighting Mount Hood
- 39 The explorers met Chinook Indians
- 40 The explorers first view of the Pacific Ocean
- 41 A fight between expedition members and a party of Piegan warriors
- 42 The expedition returns to Mandan Indian country
- 43 Captain Lewis shot in the leg while hunting in North Dakota
- 44 The boats of the Lewis and Clark expedition reach the little village of La Charette, near St. Charles
- 45 Silhouette Portraits of Lewis and Clark
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